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by: Saint Germain
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Amazon.com's Best of 2000:
Smooth, downtempo grace flows through the veins of St. Germain, a.k.a. noted French composer-producer Ludovic Navarre. His record is a sensual flow of jazzy textures, Latin rhythms, and bass-ridden beats, hovering on the verge of techno, jazz, or experimental headphone music without tipping its hand too far in any direction. The result is irresistible: class with an edge. --Matthew Cooke
Amazon.com:
Techno and house music producer Ludovic Navarre is--along with Laurent Garnier, Air and DJ Cam--one of the biggest names in French electronic music of the past decade. His ability to imaginatively blend jazz elements with recent dance-music styles has been demonstrated before, but the seamless quality of this release is stunning. Compared to someone such as Amon Tobin, who obviously (although brilliantly) creates sampled collages, St Germain makes it pleasantly difficult to identify the boundary lines between "live" performance, programmed electronics, and sampled sound. Part of the credit must go to this album's musicians, including Pascal Ohsé, Eduoard Labor, Alexandre Destrez, and Idresse Diop (at least some of whom are francophone Africans making their mark in the post-colonialist European Afro-jazz scene). The CD's opening piece, "Rose Rouge," is centered on an edgy piano rhythm and a looped vocal fragment from jazz singer Marlena Shaw. The dub-inflected "Montego Bay Spleen" features Jamaican jazz guitarist Ernest Ranglin, who offers a clean, warm, neo-Wes Montgomery style filtered through his years as a session musician-architect of ska and reggae. And Edouard Labor's raspy flute tone on "So Flute," its role as much rhythmic as melodic, adds a Latin flavor to the mix. "Sure Thing," another high point of the release, is built around a vocal and guitar sample from blues guitarist John Lee Hooker, borrowed from the soundtrack to Dennis Hopper's film The Hot Spot and noteworthy on its own as probably the only time Hooker, Miles Davis, and Taj Mahal ever played together. Navarre's skill in selecting musicians, finding sample sources, and assembling cool, streamlined grooves adds up to quite an accomplishment. --Bob Bannister
Album Description:
EMI UK pressing. 2000 release from French DJ/producer, mixing jazz, blues, funk and soul. Includes the single 'Rose Rouge'.
Album Details:
Album from French DJ/PRODUCER Mixing Jazz, Blues, Funk, Soul and Deep House.
Smooth, downtempo grace flows through the veins of St. Germain, a.k.a. noted French composer-producer Ludovic Navarre. His record is a sensual flow of jazzy textures, Latin rhythms, and bass-ridden beats, hovering on the verge of techno, jazz, or experimental headphone music without tipping its hand too far in any direction. The result is irresistible: class with an edge. --Matthew Cooke
Amazon.com:
Techno and house music producer Ludovic Navarre is--along with Laurent Garnier, Air and DJ Cam--one of the biggest names in French electronic music of the past decade. His ability to imaginatively blend jazz elements with recent dance-music styles has been demonstrated before, but the seamless quality of this release is stunning. Compared to someone such as Amon Tobin, who obviously (although brilliantly) creates sampled collages, St Germain makes it pleasantly difficult to identify the boundary lines between "live" performance, programmed electronics, and sampled sound. Part of the credit must go to this album's musicians, including Pascal Ohsé, Eduoard Labor, Alexandre Destrez, and Idresse Diop (at least some of whom are francophone Africans making their mark in the post-colonialist European Afro-jazz scene). The CD's opening piece, "Rose Rouge," is centered on an edgy piano rhythm and a looped vocal fragment from jazz singer Marlena Shaw. The dub-inflected "Montego Bay Spleen" features Jamaican jazz guitarist Ernest Ranglin, who offers a clean, warm, neo-Wes Montgomery style filtered through his years as a session musician-architect of ska and reggae. And Edouard Labor's raspy flute tone on "So Flute," its role as much rhythmic as melodic, adds a Latin flavor to the mix. "Sure Thing," another high point of the release, is built around a vocal and guitar sample from blues guitarist John Lee Hooker, borrowed from the soundtrack to Dennis Hopper's film The Hot Spot and noteworthy on its own as probably the only time Hooker, Miles Davis, and Taj Mahal ever played together. Navarre's skill in selecting musicians, finding sample sources, and assembling cool, streamlined grooves adds up to quite an accomplishment. --Bob Bannister
Album Description:
EMI UK pressing. 2000 release from French DJ/producer, mixing jazz, blues, funk and soul. Includes the single 'Rose Rouge'.
Album Details:
Album from French DJ/PRODUCER Mixing Jazz, Blues, Funk, Soul and Deep House.
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Customer Reviews
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- great acid jazz cd! Song from the movie serendipity that wasn't in the soundtrack!
I looked for the song Rose Rouge for an eternity, after I heard it on the movie Serendipity, but it wasn't in the soundtrack.This cd is just amazing!I love it!!!!!
Rating: - Ultra-tasty lounge / house / jazz
A reviewer describes this as 'house meets jazz' and as such this is an exceptional cd.However it is distinctly NOT for the jazz purist.The tunes are bluesy, modal, funky, and (mostly) danceable.Granting that some of the rhythm tracks are sequenced, the instrumental work here is good to great.There is a lot of soloing and it all succeeds... not too flashy, with emphasis on tastefulness.The mixture of soloists --xylophone, sax, trumpet, keyboard, flute, and guitar-- keeps things varied (the ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent CD
This is an excellent cd.There really isn't a weak cut.It's a fusion of jazz electronic and blues.It's almost dancable.If you've never heard any of his music before, this is the cd with which to start.
Rating: - Jazz at its finest
This is one of the best Jazz cd's that I have ever bought. The rhythm and the beat capture the soul. You must buy this if you love true Jazz.
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- Stone Cold Groove
Been listening to this for the last three weeks since I got it. If u like acid jazz with a driving bass/precussion backbeat and some incredible keyboard and flute work this is for you.
About 5 very solid tracks, coupla ok ones and one is kinda background music.
Flip on this CD in your car in the nightime, seems to sound better at night, and cruise down road with a head noddin' stone cold groove
- great acid jazz cd! Song from the movie serendipity that wasn't in the soundtrack!I looked for the song Rose Rouge for an eternity, after I heard it on the movie Serendipity, but it wasn't in the soundtrack.This cd is just amazing!I love it!!!!!
- Ultra-tasty lounge / house / jazzA reviewer describes this as 'house meets jazz' and as such this is an exceptional cd.However it is distinctly NOT for the jazz purist.The tunes are bluesy, modal, funky, and (mostly) danceable.Granting that some of the rhythm tracks are sequenced, the instrumental work here is good to great.There is a lot of soloing and it all succeeds... not too flashy, with emphasis on tastefulness.The mixture of soloists --xylophone, sax, trumpet, keyboard, flute, and guitar-- keeps things varied (the ... Read More
- Excellent CDThis is an excellent cd.There really isn't a weak cut.It's a fusion of jazz electronic and blues.It's almost dancable.If you've never heard any of his music before, this is the cd with which to start.
- Jazz at its finestThis is one of the best Jazz cd's that I have ever bought. The rhythm and the beat capture the soul. You must buy this if you love true Jazz.
- Stone Cold GrooveBeen listening to this for the last three weeks since I got it. If u like acid jazz with a driving bass/precussion backbeat and some incredible keyboard and flute work this is for you.
About 5 very solid tracks, coupla ok ones and one is kinda background music.
Flip on this CD in your car in the nightime, seems to sound better at night, and cruise down road with a head noddin' stone cold groove
